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Masterpiece found hanging in French woman's kitchen headed to the Louvre
UPI ^ | NOV. 16, 2023 / 1:38 PM | By Ben Hooper

Posted on 11/16/2023 11:31:10 AM PST by Red Badger

A painting found hanging in an elderly French woman's kitchen was found to be a long-lost panel from a polyptych by 13th-century Italian artist Cimabue. The painting, titled "Mocking of Christ," is scheduled to be auctioned Oct. 27. Photo courtesy of Acteon

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Nov. 16 (UPI) -- A long-lost masterpiece dating back to 1280 is headed to the Louvre after it was found hanging in a French grandmother's kitchen.

"Christ Mocked," a 10-inch-by-8-inch painting by Florentine artist Cimabue, aka Cenni di Pepo, was rediscovered in 2019, when an elderly woman from the town of Compiegne decided to have it appraised.

The painting had been hanging in her kitchen for years.

The artwork was auctioned for about $26.8 million, but the French government barred it from being exported, declaring it to be a "national treasure."

Rima Abdul Malak, the French minister of culture, and Laurence des Cars, president and director of the Louvre Museum, said the painting will now have a new home as part of an exhibit at the famed Paris museum.

The duo announced that the French government had purchased the painting from the auction winner.

"Christ Mocked" and another Cimabue painting, titled "Maestà," will be displayed at the Louvre in an exhibit set to open in 2025.


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; History; Religion; UFO's
KEYWORDS: benhooper; cennidipepo; cimabue; compiegne; florence; france; godsgravesglyphs; laurencedescars; louvre; middleages; mockingofchrist; paris; polyptych; rimaabdulmalak
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UFO = Unidentified Florentine Object...............
1 posted on 11/16/2023 11:31:10 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

With that kind of money, that French woman should be able to buy herself a new kitchen.


2 posted on 11/16/2023 11:40:17 AM PST by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: Red Badger

It makes me wonder how many other pieces out there are sitting in people’s homes - and they don’t even know about it.

I especially wonder about the art the Nazis looted during WWII. Obviously, some was destroyed in Allied aerial bombings but I can’t help wonder how many other pieces are still hidden in caves somewhere or hanging in someone’s home or sitting in at attic.


3 posted on 11/16/2023 11:40:51 AM PST by MplsSteve
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To: MplsSteve

Seems like every year or so, some unknown or missing masterpiece is found.............


4 posted on 11/16/2023 11:42:00 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: jerod

The French taxes probably ate it all up!...................


5 posted on 11/16/2023 11:43:08 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: MplsSteve

There’s a ton of recovered art in my office building. Guy is the grandson of some art dealer the Nazis robbed. Pretty amazing offices. I always just stare into the windows like a weirdo.


6 posted on 11/16/2023 12:05:06 PM PST by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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The painting had been hanging in her kitchen for years.

Looks like it needs a thorough cleaning...................

7 posted on 11/16/2023 12:12:36 PM PST by Hebrews 11:6 (“It was full of large fish, 153, but even with so many the net was not torn. ” John 21:11)
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Well, it had 800 years of cooking grease on it!..................


8 posted on 11/16/2023 12:20:26 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

amazing. for once the word ‘masterpiece’ is not an exaggeration. looking at the faces....


9 posted on 11/16/2023 12:26:53 PM PST by dadfly ( )
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10 posted on 11/16/2023 12:30:38 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

How can the French government classify a work of Art by a 13th Century ITALIAN artist to be a national treasure of FRANCE??? To my way of thinking, only Italy could claim it as a national treasure and should be demanding its repatriation! 😂


11 posted on 11/16/2023 12:30:39 PM PST by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplophobe bigots!)
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“Looks like it needs a thorough cleaning................... “

Hard to imagine a worse environment for a thousand year old painting :(


12 posted on 11/16/2023 12:31:05 PM PST by LizzieD
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Italy didn’t exist as a nation in 1280.

Florence, was a city-state, so only Florence could claim it!...........


13 posted on 11/16/2023 12:32:28 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

oh i remember that abomination of a ‘restoration.’ what a waste. hopefully the Louvre has a competent person.


14 posted on 11/16/2023 12:34:17 PM PST by dadfly ( )
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Rima Abdul Malak, the French minister of culture...

At the current rate, French culture will not be French for much longer.

15 posted on 11/16/2023 12:42:03 PM PST by Blennos
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Hard to imagine a worse environment for a thousand year old painting

I don't know. The layers of grease, accumulating over many years, may have formed a protective coating over the surface of the painting.

16 posted on 11/16/2023 12:46:20 PM PST by Blennos
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At the current rate, French culture will not be cultured for much longer.......................


17 posted on 11/16/2023 12:58:55 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Lotta potential men’s hair club members.


18 posted on 11/16/2023 1:14:27 PM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh (Wake me up when somebody tells the truth.)
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At the current rate, French culture will not be cultured for much longer.......................

Yes. What we here in the West refer to as "culture" and what the Islamic world calls culture are vastly different affairs.

19 posted on 11/16/2023 1:26:17 PM PST by Blennos
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To: Red Badger

I knew that… but none of the governments of Europe except possibly Great Britain existed in the 13th Century existed either. France did not exist as currently formed either. LOL!

So who owns the rights to claim cultural rights to this one third of a triptych? I don’t recall right now if the other two panels are in the Louvre or not. Best cultural claim is, as you say, Florence. But where was the artist in question born? Perhaps that place would have a better claim? Maybe the family who commissioned the Triptych in the first place or trace back the last known owners before it disappeared? I suspect that the current one-third owner, the woman in whose kitchen it was discovered is the only current owner and she has dispositve rights to sell it to whom and where the buy would like to take it. This cultural claim crap is ridiculous!


20 posted on 11/16/2023 2:09:38 PM PST by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplophobe bigots!)
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